Re: help needed: smplayer changed it's config dir
On Sat, 15 Nov 2008 02:09:58 +0200, manuel wolfshant wrote:
On 11/15/2008 01:54 AM, Sebastian Vahl wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I need some help before I upgrade smplayer in F9. The new version changed it's
> config dir from ~/.smplayer to ~/.config/smplayer. [1] The user has to move
> his old custom config manually if he wants to preserve it. Although smplayer
> would start normally, the custom config of the user wouldn't be used.
>
> So I'm not sure how I introduce this update in F9. We don't have such thinks
> like bodhi and it's upgrade notifications. So what would be the best way to
> inform the users that they have to manually move their config files to
> preserve them? Blog it on the new rpmfusion blog? :)
>
>
Any particular reason to not do a cp ~/.smplayer ~/.config/smplayer (or
even a ln -s) in %post ?
Yes. In %post, ~ doesn't expand to every user's home directory.
Instead, you probably want to patch the source code to rename/copy/move
the config dir/file if ~/.config/smplayer doesn't exist already.